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The sixth annual Hogwarts at Hamilton will take place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26 and 27, at Emerson Hall. Hogwarts holds a series of hour-long shows where visitors are taken on a tour of "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." On these tours they see Hamilton students dressed as Hogwarts students, and improvising scenes of classrooms that might have come from one of J.K. Rowlings' books.

Three Hamilton alumni employed in health care professions will return to campus for a "Health Matters" panel on Monday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center room G041. The forum is part of the Diversity Social Justice Project year-long series on global health and healthcare. The panel will feature Jeff Long '05, an analyst with Revolution Health, Alison Lin '03, a research associate affiliated with the Mailman School of Public Health, and Josie Collier '97, a counseling consultant with the University of Washington Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente. The alumni will talk about their jobs in the health care field since leaving Hamilton. This event is sponsored by The Diversity and Social Justice Project, the Career Center and the Dean of Faculty. It is free and open to the public

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen participated in a conference focused on the role of the economics major in a liberal education at the invitation of the American Economic Association's Committee on Economic Education. Along with nine other economists from both public and private research universities and liberal arts colleges, Owen discussed ways in which economics can be taught that increase the potential for economics to contribute to a liberal education.

Professor of English Margaret Thickstun presented a paper at the 2007 Conference on John Milton, sponsored by the Department of English at Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tenn., on October 25-27. Her paper "Resisting Patience in Milton's Sonnet 19" addressed the problem of creating a sense of closure in a lyric that resists its own message. Stephen Orlando '08 also had a paper accepted but was unable to attend the meeting. His paper was about the process of turning the first book of Paradise Lost into graphic novel form, which he did as an independent project during his sophomore year.

Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan has been appointed to the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artists' Fellowship Advisory Committee in the category of photography. NYFA gives more support to artists and arts organizations in all disciplines than any other private organization in the country, according to the NYFA Web site.

In "London Stole My TV," Eric Kuhn '09, who is studying at the London School of Economics for the year, wrote in a Huffington Post blog about the challenges in following U.S. news and media while abroad. Using an iPod, iTunes, the Internet and YouTube, he has been able to replicate both the noise and the news he once absorbed via television and Netflix.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented a paper titled "Inequality, Trust and the size of the cooperative sector: cross country evidence" at the First International Conference on the Social Economy in Victoria, Canada, on Wednesday, Oct. 24. The paper details the first, albeit preliminary, empirical evidence on the determinants of differences in the size of the cooperative sector around the world.

U.S. Representative Michael A. Arcuri (D-Utica), who represents the 24th District of New York that includes Hamilton College, hosted a visit on Oct. 16 from students in Hamilton's Program in Washington.

Dan Nye '88, CEO of networking site LinkedIn, is featured in a Newsweek Q&A interview in which he mentions Hamilton College (10/29/07). LinkedIn is a professional networking site with 15 million members that is built on social-networking concepts and principles. In answering whether LinkedIn users should accept a connection from anyone who asks, Nye responded "Absolutely not....But I'll always accept someone who's a Hamilton College (my alma mater) grad."

The second test of Hamilton's new campuswide emergency communications system will take place on Monday, Oct. 29. All Hamilton students and employees will receive a phone call, e-mail and/or text message between 11 and 11:30 a.m.